11.   American officials also have become alarmed that the Europeans are rushing into uncharted waters without adequate preparation.

12.   Good equipment, adequate preparation and calm nerves are essential when firefighters respond to an incident, officials said, and the instructors try to set that tone.

13.   There is some evidence that dropout rates have risen because students must meet higher standards without adequate preparation.

14.   There is no question that management has thrown you into a situation without adequate preparation, and you can certainly make the case that management deserves whatever it gets.

15.   True enough, but nothing anyone might have said in advance could have been adequate preparation for the performance that followed.

16.   Businessman Sofjan Wanandi told Soeharto that the plan to offer savings in dollars might negatively affect public confidence in the rupiah if the plan was launched without adequate preparation.

17.   Callers said the MBC failed to make adequate preparations to relay the match to soccer-crazy Malawi.

18.   The Stalinist state has made adequate preparations to store the waste, and final approval should be granted soon, the paper quoted an unidentified AEC official as saying.

19.   Volin said officials did not react strongly enough to alleged judging mistakes and did not make adequate preparations for the games, particularly on the issue of doping.

20.   Among concerns about the legal system, Amnesty said that defendants were not assigned a lawyer until just before the trial, not allowing time for adequate preparations.